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i, issue YOU GOTTA LOVE IT BABYT The I 'tah Jazz eliminated the test)' Los Angeles Lakers in just five games to advance to the conference final for the fourth time in six years. See page 6 Utah 1 alley State College RALLYING CRY Sheila Banister and the Student Advocacy Club rallyfor student rights. Are theyjust whining or do they have legitimate concerns? John Bernhard The College Times Section 3.3, Item 'D' of the ASUVSC Constitution was at the forefront of the Student Advocacy Club's (SAC) rallying cry for improved student rights and administrational accountability. Located at the bottom of page three of the. Constitution, Item 'D' extends four guidelines for Student Government to follow when spending more than $10,000. The expenditure must be publicized in the school newspaper, posted in conspicuous loca-.tions throughout campus five days prior to acceptance, presented to at least one open forum for students to discuss the proposed expense, and must be approved by a majority of the students of UVSC as a recommendation of action to Student Government. SAC and its president, Sheila Banister, sponsored a rally in correlation with ASUVSC (Student Government) complete with balloons, painted posters, pizza and a megaphone. Amid chants of "UVSC Rocks" and "It's not funny, it's our money" Banister indicated the major complaints of SAC and ASUVSC. "We demand the administration to be accountable. Student money is not being spent correctly and with student consent," she said. Banister indicated two examples of questionable spending practices by the administration, including the donation of $1 million to the completion of the David O. McKay Events Center, and the funding of a retired employee's pension. According to a memo obtained by The College Times, SAC believes that the $1 million "was taken" without "student consent" to pay for the seats in new events center. Banister said that no attempts to get student Hi Mm h 1 1 8 II IlllfflUlllli I "D AWM iV m HH to EM Mn. M n WgL - I fl m c MMMM Mmm QWMM MM k CO I c .c o tm Bft -i See ADVOCACY, page 3 SUMMER GRUMPIN': Matt Ferguson, a recent graduate of UVSC, joins the chorus of more than 50 students who gathered in the Quad Monday morning to voice their dissatisfaction over the dispersal of student fees by UVSC's administration. "We will no longer stand idly by as administrators trample the students. -Taken from a memo issued by Student Advocacy Club NO SOUP FOR 'SEINFELD? The cast of 'Seinfeld' hit the motherlode with a monstrous new con tract with NBCfor two more seasons. m MK'f '- o page 6 J kjJf Frat houses to go dry by 2000 The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Walk into the University of Utah's Sigma Nu fraternity house and you'll find soiled carpets, couches scattered helter-skelter and pictures of past frat members askew. Shoved into the corner is a beat-up, benchless black piano. "We were getting ready to make a bar out of it," said chapter president Ralph Thompson. "But those plans have been kind of nullified." All 213 Sigma Nu chapters across the country must go alcohol-free by fall 2000 under orders from the fraternity's national organization in Virginia. It's the same story next door at Phi Delta Theta, and some predict all national fraternities will follow suit within five years. Rising insurance premiums for members and increased costs to fix alcohol-inspired vandalism are parts of the reason. At the same time, fraternity membership nationwide is shrinking. "Alcohol has probably become too important of an issue in fraternities," said Scott Mietchen, a U of U employee and member of Phi Delta Theta's national board. "With this movement, we are simply taking our fraternity back to our original values friendship, sound learning and rectitude." Phi Delta Theta junior Vince Brown was skeptical when he heard his house was about to hop on the wagon. "I was aghast," he said. "Appalled." However, Brown concedes he is reluctantly "coming around" to the notion. The new rules don't mean fraternity members can't drink. But they cannot drink on fraternity property. But even if drinking did stop, Brown said, the fraternity would carry on. "Drinking is just one element of this," he insisted. In 1987, complaints from neighbors about raucous beer parties led to a deal between Salt Lake City, school officials and fraternities. The frat houses now hire a police officer to stand guard every time they throw a party with more than 60 See FRAT HOUSES, page 2 1,722 graduates bid farewell to UVSC Commencement is the end and the beginning of a whole life, Covey tells McKay Center gathering The College Times Over 1,700 graduates hailing from 17 countries and 34 states accepted diplomas, degrees and certificates from Kerry Romesburg on April 25. The wide range of accolades were held in special, seperate convocations held throughout the day. In addition to the regular festivities, honorary degrees were handed out to Karen Ashton, wife of Alan Ashton, Wm. Rolfe Kerr, a former member of the UVSC official honored Prestigious award given to UVSC administrator The College Times The National Council for Marketing and Public Relations honored UVSC Vice President Gilbert E. Cook with its prestigious D. Richard Petrizzo Award for Career Service. This award is bestowed on public relations and marketing professionals for career accomplishment. Cook played a key role in UVSC's transition from Utah Technical College to Utah Valley State College in 1987, and was instrumental in UVCC's 1993 rebirth as Utah First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Stephen R. Covey, founder of Covey Leadership. Covey also addressed the congregation as the commencement keynote speaker. Ashton and Covey were honored with doctorate of humane letters degrees. Kerr, who in addition to LDS church duties, served in a wide range of educational capacities, was awarded an honorary doctorate of higher education leadership. Ashton, whose community service and donations have helped city libraries and child education efforts throughout Utah Valley, also founded the Timpanogas Storytelling Festival. Covey is a nationally known, best-selling author of leadershipempowering books and seminars. During his remarks, he counseled the graduates to develop a personal mission statement, a mantra of sorts. Such a statement, he said, encompasses the things that life is about and the principles which control us. He went on to say that a mission statement contained two crucial elements: a vision of what life is all about, and sacred, private system of values. Covey finished his remarks with, "To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy. This is the essence of life." I 0) cr a u v o O O cn 3 THE FUTURE AWAITS: Six of the 1,722 graduates listen attentively to Stephen R. Covey's commencement address. "Leaving a legacy is a sacred duty," Covey said. mi PPP y SkhH Gilbert E. Cook Newspaper undergoes facelift Valley State College. The Petrizzon award is given each year at the NCMPR's annual national conference. Couk has represented the college in a myriad of positions since 1981. Recurrently serves as the vice president for college relations and campus support. Familiar tabloid design is shelved for taller, wider broadsheet format John Bernhard The College Times If you've made it to this point on the page, you've probably noticed something radically different about The College Times. Yup. We're bigger. Much bigger. For those traditionalists out there, let me begin by saying that a change of this magnitude (and trust me, switching format of a newspaper is a monumental redesign process) was made in the best interest of the readership of the newspaper. In order to maintain a profitable newspaper, the smaller tabloid-sized issues we've put out for years and years just weren't getting the job done. I'm sure that many of you noticed how the pages of the old Times were brimming with advertisements, so many in fact that there was little or no room (believe it or not) to effectively address the multitude of news stories that develop each week on campus. You've probably noticed by now that we are not only covering news, we are doing with a much more visual approach, including the implementation of design-style headlines, supplemental headlines (known as 'decks' in this business) below the main headlines and larger photos. In the near future, our plans involve printing The College Times in color, a rarity in days past. We anticipate that with a larger format, the designer and the advertisers will both have more freedom to do what do they best: design and advertise, respectively.Now a brief note about the summer editions ot the Times. We will follow the same schedule as in the past, which entails an edition of this newspaper every other Wednesday. This is due to a general lack of a voluminous readership, the slow news days (and weeks) and the assumption that the new editor in chief and hisher staff are green and inexperienced and therefore require a longer downtime in order to put out a decent newspaper. In addition, it is still early in the process and we've yet to hire a full staff for the summer editions. You'll notice that this edition of the paper is considerably shorter than it will be in the future, that there is more syndicated material from the Associated Press and more than two or three articles are written by yours truly. By May 28, our next publication date, we hope to have a full staff in place to offer a little assistance to Xochitl (our managing editor) and me (not to mention Jeremy, our great ad guy.) Look for the new and improved Times to keep getting fresher and more improved as the summer wears on. i

i, issue YOU GOTTA LOVE IT BABYT The I 'tah Jazz eliminated the test)' Los Angeles Lakers in just five games to advance to the conference final for the fourth time in six years. See page 6 Utah 1 alley State College RALLYING CRY Sheila Banister and the Student Advocacy Club rallyfor student rights. Are theyjust whining or do they have legitimate concerns? John Bernhard The College Times Section 3.3, Item 'D' of the ASUVSC Constitution was at the forefront of the Student Advocacy Club's (SAC) rallying cry for improved student rights and administrational accountability. Located at the bottom of page three of the. Constitution, Item 'D' extends four guidelines for Student Government to follow when spending more than $10,000. The expenditure must be publicized in the school newspaper, posted in conspicuous loca-.tions throughout campus five days prior to acceptance, presented to at least one open forum for students to discuss the proposed expense, and must be approved by a majority of the students of UVSC as a recommendation of action to Student Government. SAC and its president, Sheila Banister, sponsored a rally in correlation with ASUVSC (Student Government) complete with balloons, painted posters, pizza and a megaphone. Amid chants of "UVSC Rocks" and "It's not funny, it's our money" Banister indicated the major complaints of SAC and ASUVSC. "We demand the administration to be accountable. Student money is not being spent correctly and with student consent," she said. Banister indicated two examples of questionable spending practices by the administration, including the donation of $1 million to the completion of the David O. McKay Events Center, and the funding of a retired employee's pension. According to a memo obtained by The College Times, SAC believes that the $1 million "was taken" without "student consent" to pay for the seats in new events center. Banister said that no attempts to get student Hi Mm h 1 1 8 II IlllfflUlllli I "D AWM iV m HH to EM Mn. M n WgL - I fl m c MMMM Mmm QWMM MM k CO I c .c o tm Bft -i See ADVOCACY, page 3 SUMMER GRUMPIN': Matt Ferguson, a recent graduate of UVSC, joins the chorus of more than 50 students who gathered in the Quad Monday morning to voice their dissatisfaction over the dispersal of student fees by UVSC's administration. "We will no longer stand idly by as administrators trample the students. -Taken from a memo issued by Student Advocacy Club NO SOUP FOR 'SEINFELD? The cast of 'Seinfeld' hit the motherlode with a monstrous new con tract with NBCfor two more seasons. m MK'f '- o page 6 J kjJf Frat houses to go dry by 2000 The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Walk into the University of Utah's Sigma Nu fraternity house and you'll find soiled carpets, couches scattered helter-skelter and pictures of past frat members askew. Shoved into the corner is a beat-up, benchless black piano. "We were getting ready to make a bar out of it," said chapter president Ralph Thompson. "But those plans have been kind of nullified." All 213 Sigma Nu chapters across the country must go alcohol-free by fall 2000 under orders from the fraternity's national organization in Virginia. It's the same story next door at Phi Delta Theta, and some predict all national fraternities will follow suit within five years. Rising insurance premiums for members and increased costs to fix alcohol-inspired vandalism are parts of the reason. At the same time, fraternity membership nationwide is shrinking. "Alcohol has probably become too important of an issue in fraternities," said Scott Mietchen, a U of U employee and member of Phi Delta Theta's national board. "With this movement, we are simply taking our fraternity back to our original values friendship, sound learning and rectitude." Phi Delta Theta junior Vince Brown was skeptical when he heard his house was about to hop on the wagon. "I was aghast," he said. "Appalled." However, Brown concedes he is reluctantly "coming around" to the notion. The new rules don't mean fraternity members can't drink. But they cannot drink on fraternity property. But even if drinking did stop, Brown said, the fraternity would carry on. "Drinking is just one element of this," he insisted. In 1987, complaints from neighbors about raucous beer parties led to a deal between Salt Lake City, school officials and fraternities. The frat houses now hire a police officer to stand guard every time they throw a party with more than 60 See FRAT HOUSES, page 2 1,722 graduates bid farewell to UVSC Commencement is the end and the beginning of a whole life, Covey tells McKay Center gathering The College Times Over 1,700 graduates hailing from 17 countries and 34 states accepted diplomas, degrees and certificates from Kerry Romesburg on April 25. The wide range of accolades were held in special, seperate convocations held throughout the day. In addition to the regular festivities, honorary degrees were handed out to Karen Ashton, wife of Alan Ashton, Wm. Rolfe Kerr, a former member of the UVSC official honored Prestigious award given to UVSC administrator The College Times The National Council for Marketing and Public Relations honored UVSC Vice President Gilbert E. Cook with its prestigious D. Richard Petrizzo Award for Career Service. This award is bestowed on public relations and marketing professionals for career accomplishment. Cook played a key role in UVSC's transition from Utah Technical College to Utah Valley State College in 1987, and was instrumental in UVCC's 1993 rebirth as Utah First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Stephen R. Covey, founder of Covey Leadership. Covey also addressed the congregation as the commencement keynote speaker. Ashton and Covey were honored with doctorate of humane letters degrees. Kerr, who in addition to LDS church duties, served in a wide range of educational capacities, was awarded an honorary doctorate of higher education leadership. Ashton, whose community service and donations have helped city libraries and child education efforts throughout Utah Valley, also founded the Timpanogas Storytelling Festival. Covey is a nationally known, best-selling author of leadershipempowering books and seminars. During his remarks, he counseled the graduates to develop a personal mission statement, a mantra of sorts. Such a statement, he said, encompasses the things that life is about and the principles which control us. He went on to say that a mission statement contained two crucial elements: a vision of what life is all about, and sacred, private system of values. Covey finished his remarks with, "To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy. This is the essence of life." I 0) cr a u v o O O cn 3 THE FUTURE AWAITS: Six of the 1,722 graduates listen attentively to Stephen R. Covey's commencement address. "Leaving a legacy is a sacred duty," Covey said. mi PPP y SkhH Gilbert E. Cook Newspaper undergoes facelift Valley State College. The Petrizzon award is given each year at the NCMPR's annual national conference. Couk has represented the college in a myriad of positions since 1981. Recurrently serves as the vice president for college relations and campus support. Familiar tabloid design is shelved for taller, wider broadsheet format John Bernhard The College Times If you've made it to this point on the page, you've probably noticed something radically different about The College Times. Yup. We're bigger. Much bigger. For those traditionalists out there, let me begin by saying that a change of this magnitude (and trust me, switching format of a newspaper is a monumental redesign process) was made in the best interest of the readership of the newspaper. In order to maintain a profitable newspaper, the smaller tabloid-sized issues we've put out for years and years just weren't getting the job done. I'm sure that many of you noticed how the pages of the old Times were brimming with advertisements, so many in fact that there was little or no room (believe it or not) to effectively address the multitude of news stories that develop each week on campus. You've probably noticed by now that we are not only covering news, we are doing with a much more visual approach, including the implementation of design-style headlines, supplemental headlines (known as 'decks' in this business) below the main headlines and larger photos. In the near future, our plans involve printing The College Times in color, a rarity in days past. We anticipate that with a larger format, the designer and the advertisers will both have more freedom to do what do they best: design and advertise, respectively.Now a brief note about the summer editions ot the Times. We will follow the same schedule as in the past, which entails an edition of this newspaper every other Wednesday. This is due to a general lack of a voluminous readership, the slow news days (and weeks) and the assumption that the new editor in chief and hisher staff are green and inexperienced and therefore require a longer downtime in order to put out a decent newspaper. In addition, it is still early in the process and we've yet to hire a full staff for the summer editions. You'll notice that this edition of the paper is considerably shorter than it will be in the future, that there is more syndicated material from the Associated Press and more than two or three articles are written by yours truly. By May 28, our next publication date, we hope to have a full staff in place to offer a little assistance to Xochitl (our managing editor) and me (not to mention Jeremy, our great ad guy.) Look for the new and improved Times to keep getting fresher and more improved as the summer wears on. i